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Map of the circulation in the west of the North Atlantic. Credit: Mathilde Jutras Changes to the flow of the Labrador Current along the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador to Nova Scotia are leading to sudden warmings or drops in the oxygen levels of the waters in several regions including the St. Lawrence Gulf and Estuary. This change has dire consequences for marine ecosystems and fisheries.…

via Warner Bros. Any movie that comes bearing a highly specific and incredibly niche concept is always going to end up being compared to its spiritual predecessors, but it would have helped had Eight Legged Freaks at least tried to differentiate itself from Hollywood’s back catalogue of giant spider terrors. Co-writer and director Ellory Elkayem does admittedly make a point of paying homage to the classics, but reinventing the wheel even the slightest doesn’t really seem to be on the agenda. If you’ve seen one…

via Disney The arguments over whether or not The Little Mermaid has enough gas in the tank to make it to a billion dollars at the box office began a long time ago, and it’s one that’ll be very interesting to keep track of. Of course, it’s worth remembering that director Rob Marshall has experience in that department, having steered Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides past the mythical milestone over a decade ago, despite a terrible Rotten Tomatoes score of 33 percent enshrining it as one of the…

via Sony Producing a spiritual sequel to a movie that holds respective 98 and 92 percent scores from critics and audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, recouped its budget almost five times over at the box office, and won two Academy Awards from six nominations seems like a no-brainer, but The Son suffered from all the sins The Father didn’t commit. Both films are adaptations of Florian Zellner’s stage plays of the same name, which he co-wrote and directed himself. Anthony Hopkins also features in both – albeit as…

Image via Marvel Studios/ Remix via Apeksha Bagchi One can only imagine the cloud of tension currently occupying the corridors of Marvel Studios as everyone scratches their heads and try to think of the best way to deal with the whole controversy surrounding Jonathan Majors (especially since they have already paid him $20 million for Avengers: The Kang Dynasty). But apparently, the MCU’s Phase Four bad luck that followed Phase Five is continuing its reign in 2023 as another controversy is just waiting in the…

via CBS Action movies get remade all the time – even classics that should be left well alone – but deciding to breathe new life into one of the greatest ever made that hailed from the genre dream team of James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger was always doomed to fail, so at least True Lies is living up to expectations on that front. Barely a solitary soul was excited when it was first announced the 1994 blockbuster was being given the small screen treatment, because the movie’s entire success and appeal was…

Ambitious targets intended to slam the brakes on our current mass extinction may already be slipping out of reach barely a year after they were established, new research suggests.Data on birds and mammals reveal there's a huge time lag between environmental change and its impact on animal populations, of up to 45 years depending on the species and the drivers of change.This means the historic 'peace pact with nature' pledged at the United Nation's Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) in December last year may already be out…

Canada now has its first dire wolf.For the first time, a Canadian fossil has been confirmed as having come from the Ice Age predator featured in the TV series Game of Thrones. The specimen, from near Medicine Hat in southern Alberta, was tentatively identified decades ago, but a team from the Royal Ontario Museum used new technology to finally lock it down."It had never been fully described," said evolutionary biologist Ashley Reynolds, lead author of the paper published in the Journal of Quaternary Science. "This had…

via Sony It’s perfectly okay if you don’t remember given how fleeting the failed experiment turned out to be, but at the turn of the 2010s, filmmaker Scott Stewart seemed completely and utterly determined to turn mild-mannered English gentleman Paul Bettany into a badass action hero, with Legion trying to get the ball rolling. The high concept genre-bender did admittedly have an intriguing premise, with patrons at a remote roadside diner finding themselves plunged into the middle of a battle for the very fate…

A study to be presented at a major cardiology conference showed that men who had never married had a significantly higher risk of death within five years of being diagnosed with heart failure compared to women of any marital status or men who were previously married. In fact, the risk was more than twice as high for lifelong bachelors.Awareness of marital status could help clinicians improve care.Men who never married were more than twice as likely to die within about five years after a heart failure diagnosis compared…